Seven Wonders of the World.
GREAT MAUSOLEUMS |
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Taj Mahal. Agra, India.
Mausoleum, large sepulchral monument containing a chamber in which funeral urns or coffins are deposited. 
The name is derived from the tomb erected at Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey) to King Mausolus of Caria (flourished about 376-353 BC) by his widow, Artemisia (d. about 350 BC). It was considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
A notable American mausoleum is the 19th-century tomb of President Ulysses S. Grant in New York City. General Grant National Memorial, popularly known as Grant's Tomb, is the final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant.
Other instances of magnificent mausoleums are the tomb of the Roman emperor Hadrian, now Castel Sant'Angelo, and that of Emperor Augustus, both at Rome; and the mausoleum of King Frederick William III of Prussia, at Charlottenburg in Berlin.
Our site is devoted to Lenin mausoleum,
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Official communication the death of Lenin - the leader of the world proletariat
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 In three days more than one million of people visited the Pillared Hall to say fare-well to Lenin
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 Lenin's burial at the Red Squere
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 V.I.Lenin
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 V.Lenin and I.Stalin
Stalin speeches in RealAudio
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 They started to construct the first Lenin Mausoleum on the very next day after Lenin's death.
Frouzen soil was dynamited.
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 The first Lenin Mausoleum existed till 1924.
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 The second Mausoleum, the wooden one.
Existed for 5 years.
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The Soviet Goverment anounced a competition for the best project.
Some of the projects presented.
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 In 1929 a new construction was open. A special model of the new granit Lenin Mausoleum was produced in order to make sure the new building would blend in well.
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 The third Lenin Mausolem under construction, the granite one.
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 By that time Lenin's body had not changed..
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 The Lenin Mausolem witnessed many historical events. Heroes of the Spanish Republic were greeted there
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 G.Dimitrov, A.Mikoyan, M.Gorky on the tribune of the Lenin Mausoleum
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 The building where Lenin's body were kept during the war period. Tyumen.
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 Throwing down the fascist banners
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 G.Zhukov and I.Stalin on the tribune of the Mausoleum.
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 For a certain period of time it was Lenin and Stalin Mausoleum |
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 Lenin and Stalin in the Mausoleum.
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 The ticket for visiting Mausoleum of Lenin-Stalin
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 Near the Kremlin wall
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 The Mausoleum guard
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 Time has passed.
The spruces have grown up.
There is no red banner under the Kremlin.
But the Mausoleum still exists!
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